I'm starting to get curious...do you feel like you're pressured to say something about the threads you're notified about? If you don't have anything to say (like you said after you posted "..." in the Sheehans thread), you don't have to comment. I'm not sure if there's an "unfollow this topic" option, but if you're tired of getting notifications from certain thread(s), you can mark all your notifications as read.

I'm not trying to attack you, it's just that I don't understand why you're doing this. I can see if we were in the chat having a live conversation but this is different. It's a bit disappointing to get a notification for a thread when you're expecting someone to contribute to the topic but they just say "eh" without posting an explanation. It seems like you're annoyed with what's being said...